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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

Studies supporting antibiotic treatment of documented mycoplasma pneumoniae in children are limited. Before I talk about antibiotics, I do want to bring up the question as to whether or not we actually have to treat mycoplasma in the first place.

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Can We Select “Better” Residents?

Sensible Medicine

For medical school, I would randomly select from college graduates who have achieved a minimum MCAT score and succeeded during at least a year of work in food service or the military. iii] Some of the best trainees and doctors I have ever worked with met these criteria. Require applicants to do tasks that predict whether they will succeed.

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The 50-year Failure of American Health Care

Sensible Medicine

Our leaders have done a terrible thing to doctors—they’ve told doctors to put their heads down and focus on billing and coding in short visits with patients, as they measure their performance by a doctor’s throughput. Health care needs new leaders. And losing. The declining health of the U.S.

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Episode 14: Thoracotomy

PHEM Cast

Tarney et al.Outcomes following military traumatic cardiorespiratory arrest: A prospective observational study. pdf Equipment required for resuscitative thoracotomy: Surface anatomy: Appearance of pericardial clot A foley catheter being used to fill a cardiac wound – note how easily this could be pulled out.

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A Chat with Native American Emergency Physicians

ACEP Now

It was written like a diary, detailing what he did during a weekend shift: codes, traumas, you name it. More than 200 years old, this event honors those who currently serve or have served in the military. I thought, “That’s what I want to do.” I quit my job, went to KU for undergrad, and then went to med school. Click to enlarge.)

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

It’s amazing, like being able to be calm and teach a resident while someone’s actively coding in front of you. You don’t get that from other places, maybe the military. PECK: I go back to the skills that it gives. DR. SHAH: No matter who you are, where you come from, what your problem is, we will be there for you.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Joseph Kreiselman’s portable concertina-like bellows was invented and deployed in the US military from 1943 followed by the UK’s Porton Resuscitator, postwar, from its secret chemical research facility and used industrially into the early 1960s. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr. AMBU Mark III (mil) RDIC resuscitator for U.S.